Cabin Layouts

[FishHunter]

What kind of layouts and equipment do you carry in the cabin of your boats?

I do a fair few overnighters and sleep in the boat at camp sites when on fishing trips so I have laid it out like this. Most of this stuff stays in the boat so its always ready to go.

Added a shelf in some dead space for charts and odds and ends. Plastic containers are screwed down and there is a lip all round to stop stuff falling off.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/razzo/Australia/Reef%20Ranger/IMG_0010.jpg

U Beaut camp stove, Sea anchor and safety grab bag, anchor retrieval drum and some odds and ends
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/razzo/Australia/Reef%20Ranger/IMG_0004.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/razzo/Australia/Reef%20Ranger/IMG_0003.jpg

Tools and camping kit, billys and pans, cutlery and crockery and some coffee and noodles etc.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/razzo/Australia/Reef%20Ranger/IMG_0014.jpg


Front berth has lifejackets, torch and emergency water
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/razzo/Australia/Reef%20Ranger/IMG_0008.jpg

240v power inverter, 6 way power board and 1st aid kit
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/razzo/Australia/Reef%20Ranger/IMG_0017.jpg
Plastic tubs and Fire blanket
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/razzo/Australia/Reef%20Ranger/IMG_0016.jpg
And fire extinguishers, fire worries me a bit :)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/razzo/Australia/Reef%20Ranger/IMG_0018.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/razzo/Australia/Reef%20Ranger/IMG_0019.jpg

[mal555]

It will be surprising how much more comfortable and relatively easy it will be to line the cabin with marine hull liner (AKA "mouse fur").

It's quite cheap to buy, and stretches into place with a contact adhesive and covers a multitude of sins.
Besides making the cabin feel cosy, it stops condensation, nothing worse than waking up with water on the inside of the cabin walls. You can run it down to line the under-bunk storage areas so things don't rattle around.
Setting up the stove to sit on some storage boxes made to sit under the helm and passenger seats to replace the pedestals brings some good food preparation height and moves cooking to the cockpit for more swinging room.

It doesn't take a lot to convert a standard half-cab for a bit of boat camping, it might even inspire you to anchor in a quiet little bay overnight.

[FishHunter]

I have thought about the lining and you are right the condensation is lousy. The cooking is done out back on top of the esky for now and there has been a fair bit of anchring up in bays on the islands out here allready.

[ovakil]

When I cook with small bbq,I sit it on bait board with gas bottle strapped to pod on out side of boat.Just to make sure no gas comes inside.
Cheers.

[caravellerob]

Looks nice and neat fishhunter (a lot neater than mine)

[Jarrah Jack]

Thats a decent bulkhead there, looks like it would take a drum winch. Here in Vic drum winches are all the go.

[FishHunter]

Deep water here is 50m and I have never anchored in that depth so winches are not needed as much but there are times when a winch becomes very attractive.